It's June 1st. Here the Royals are at 23-27. They've managed just 2 wins in their last 10. With their heavy inter-division slate through the end of May this was a date I thought we be a revealing one as far as where they are as a team. It is. They're nowhere, and headed in the wrong direction.
Their best hitter has been Billy Butler. Alberto Callaspo is the only guy over .30...

What a great way to start the series. I thought KC was dead. No way they do this off Kerry Wood, no matter how badly he has struggled. No way they were gonna put up 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th. And they didn't. They scored 4.
Jacobs and Teahen go yard, and all of a sudden it was 5-4. David Dejesus' RBI triple tied the game, and he scored easily on Willie Bloomquist's Sac fl...

They just keep limping along. The opportunity to beat up on bad pitching. The opportunity to play a last place team, for 4 games, at home. The opportunity to retake sole position of 1st place.
Oh, the opportunities…
Gil Meche actually had a lead, 2-0 after 3, and couldn't hold it. Thursday's game was their 6th loss in a row. They managed 5 runs, which is a nice total for ...

The last place Orioles are coming to town for 4. The Royals find themselves tied for 1st. They have their top 3 starters going, and the O's staff has given up the most runs in baseball. What could possibly go wrong?
For starters, KC has lost 5 in a row. They couldn't even manage a run the last time Zack Greinke pitched. They just don't score runs. And the O's do. More imp...

Zack Greinke was drafted by the Royals with the 6th pick in the 2002 Amateur Draft. This was the draft covered in such high detail in Michael Lewis' book, Moneyball. You remember, the one where Billy Beane “figured out” a new way to build baseball teams. Stay away from high schoolers, love sabremetrics, the whole thing. After Zack's start last night I took a look at that d...

He's leading all of baseball with a .50 ERA, and tied for the lead with 44 K's. He's the 1st to 5 wins. He's 3rd in overall WHIP, and 2nd in IP. He's held opposing hitters to a .188 batting average against. But of all the numbers there are 2 that are most important. The number 4, and the number 1.
On January 26th of this year the Kansas City Royals took a very importa...

With Joakim Soria down for the next week, someone else is going to have to take over the closer's role. According to the Royal's website, “With closer Joakim Soria out, Trey Hillman has Juan Cruz, Kyle Farnsworth and Ron Mahay at his disposal as KC tries to win its series with Detroit…” there are 3 viable candidates.
This is simply not so. Cruz, Mahay and Farnsworth ...

It's really amazing to get my much needed sports information from a program on CNN International entitled World Sport. Their aim is to encapsulate all the news in the world of sport. The entire world. In a 30 minute show. And after covering all the happenings in professional soccer and F1 racing, they've used up 17 of their 22 minutes. But each day I was guaranteed to get 1 baseball h...

You may not believe this, but getting a Royals score (either at home or abroad) can be quite a difficult thing. I had to leave for the airport sometime during the 2nd inning of Sunday's game with the Yanks. After Meche's wild pitch it wasn't hard to pull me away, especially with the prospects of looking at Joba Chamberlain for a couple of hours.
After receiving my big glass of ...

I don't want to get too crazy, only 5 games deep, but when is this team gonna start to hit the ball? Andy Pettitte made them look silly a day before, and C.C. had his way this evening. It's just not going right now for anybody in the lineup. I have confidence that eventually they will hit, but the lack of offense will put too much pressure on the starters.
They squandered Gil Meche...

So the Royals scored 6 runs. In 3 games. And managed to win 2 of em'. Following an impressive performance by Zack Greinke, Kyle Davies goes out and pitches 7 strong. The bullpen held it, and KC passes it's 1st divisional test.
In what turned out to be a pitching duel, between Davies and John Danks, the Royals showed you a little gumption.
A great catch by Dejesus in left. 3 games in ...

There were plenty of positives to take from opening day, but Kyle Farnsworth is not among them. Nobody who has ever seen “Specs” pitch was surprised in the least. It'll happen again. And again. And again. What's extra nice is that he teases you with the K of Quentin, and then leaves one out to a guy who's hit HUNDREDS of homeruns. Get used to it.
A few notes on ope...